FTD 2120 Password Recovery ?

[hashimwajid1]

Hi 

we have 2 x FTD 2120 installed in HA. we forgot the password of one of the Firewall. is there any way to recover the password of FTD 2120 ? i did not find any cisco document for password recovery of 2100.

Thanks 

[Marvin Rhoads]

Are you asking about the chassis management or the FTD logical device password?

[hashimwajid1]

Hi Marvin 

this password we used to do SSH and we configured with >configured password command 

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

There's not a simple password recovery for the FTD image. You have to re-image the logical device, run through the basic setup and then re-join in to FMC and re-deploy the configuration and policies to it.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/2100/troubleshoot_fxos/b_2100_CLI_Troubleshoot/b_2100_CLI_Troubleshoot_chapter_011.html#concept_jcn_551_hbb

The chassis itself can be password recovered per the following:

https://ciscoskills.net/2017/12/01/factory-reset-firepower-2100/

[dimitrios.katsaros]

How can i disable the password recovery permanently on the FTDs? What is the command please to do so? Is that function supported or not? 

thank you.